The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest

[Bradford DeLong]

Clearly I need to reprogram my brain. The numbers seemed high for a 
tabulation that included single individuals...


>a household can be one person.
>family is at least two.
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>mbs
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>Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:46 PM
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>Subject: Re: The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest
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>>Michael Pollak wrote:
>>
>>>Just out of curiousity: what's the average annual salary in the 81st
>>>percentile?
>>
>>For total household income in 2001, the upper limit of the fourth
>>quintile was $83,500, and the bottom of the top 5% was $150,499
>><http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h01.html>.
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>This is for households, right? That is, single individuals are
>omitted from this tabulation, completely? (That's a question...)
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>
>Brad DeLong